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MSI GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G Review

MSI GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G Testing:

Unigine Heaven 4.0:

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on the Unigine engine. This was the first DX 11 benchmark to allow testing of DX 11 features. What sets the Heaven Benchmark apart is the addition of hardware tessellation, available in three modes – Moderate, Normal, and Extreme. Although tessellation requires a video card with DirectX 11 support and Windows Vista/7, the Heaven Benchmark also supports DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL 4.0. Visually, it features beautiful floating islands that contain a tiny village and extremely detailed architecture.

Settings

8x AA

Ultra

Tesselation = Extreme

Measurement = FPS

Ashes of the Singularity:

Ashes of the Singularity is a massive, real-time strategy game on a grand scale. Developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment, Ashes of the Singularity runs on the new Nitrous engine, which enables thousands of units fighting it out on-screen. It uses DirectX 12, one of the first games to use the new API, and it helps provide even more detail to battles. Ashes of the Singularity recently came out of early access development, with more content added all the time to expand the world and its story.

Settings

Extreme Preset

3DMark:

3DMark: The just-released version of Futuremark's popular 3DMark suite is designed to let a wider range of the user base make a comparative analysis of the gaming prowess of their systems from entry level PCs, to notebooks, and extreme gaming PCs.

Settings

Default test settings

Sky Diver

Fire Strike

Fire Strike Extreme

Fire Strike Ultra

The performance picture that the MSI GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G paint in this series of tests show that the enhanced boost clock speeds that MSI employs on these two cards lets them over deliver on their performance metrics. Using MSI's Gaming App will let you tailor performance levels even higher if you choose to employ the use of the application. NVIDIA's Pascal architecture as used on MSI's offerings is even more impressive than the Founders Edition cards.